Source

Please justify your answer

Author

Search for author or publisher in search engine. Has the
author written several publications on the topic?

Publisher

Is there a sponsor or affiliation?

Who is linking to the page?

Do they take responsibility for the content?

Bias

Is the language free of emotion?

Does the organization or author indicate there will be
bias?

Is the purpose of the website to inform or to spread an
agenda?

Are there ads? Are they trying to make money?

Why did they write the article?

(Website) Is the site a content farm? A content farm is a
site whose content has been generated by teams of low-paid
freelancers who write large amounts of text to raise the
site’s search engine rankings.

Citations

Copy and paste a sentence into Google to see if the text
can be found elsewhere.

(Website) Are there links to related sites? Are they
organized?

Are there citations or a bibliography provided?

Accuracy

Is the data verifiable and accurate?

Accuracy

Is the source comprehensive?

Currency

When was the source last updated?

Does the source even have a date?

Design

Is the source professional?

Does it seem like current design?

Reproduced

Was it reproduced? If so, from where? Type a sentence in
Google to verify.

If it was reproduced, was it done so with permission?
Copyright/disclaimer included?